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ArticleChemical physics letters2017

Improved Treatment of Nucleosides and Nucleotides in the OPLS-AA Force Field.

Michael J Robertson, Julian Tirado-Rives, William L Jorgensen

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Article in Chemical physics letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Development and Testing of the OPLS-AA/M Force Field for RNA.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael J RobertsonDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States.
Julian Tirado-RivesDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States.
William L JorgensenDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8107, United States.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
POTENTIAL FUNCTIONS FOR WATER PROTEIN INTERACTIONSR01GM032136 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI JORGENSEN, WILLIAM L. · 1985 to 2023
$8.2M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM032136
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DFT calculations have been used to develop improved descriptions of the torsional energetics for nucleosides and nucleotides in the OPLS-AA force field. Scans of nucleotide dihedral angles (γ, χ, and β) and methyl phosphates provided the bases for the new torsional parameters. In addition, the angle-bending parameters of phosphodiesters and ribose were updated, and adjustments were made to existing carbohydrate torsions to better capture the sugar puckering landscape of ribose. MD simulations of nucleosides with the new parameters demonstrate a significant improvement in the ribose sugar puckering and χ angle distributions. Additionally, energy-minimization of protein-nucleotide crystal structures with the new parameters produced accurate poses.

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Force FieldMolecular DynamicsNucleosideNucleotide

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PMID29479109
PMCPMC5821430

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